Enterprise Solutions & Analytics

Is it possible to succeed in market conditions undergoing rapid change?

Success hinges on the relationships companies have with their customers and their ability to make insightful business decisions that deliver value. But in constantly evolving industries, these decisions are harder to make, and changes more difficult to manage. The accuracy of a company’s underlying, enterprise-wide systems that support these decisions, as well as compliance and risk protection data, become essential for their future success. As is a deep understanding of a company’s nuanced set of stakeholders, existing governance and processes, and customer relationships.

With seemingly endless options and questions to consider, how can companies choose the right technology and path forward?

At Huron, we understand the complexities of the competitive landscape and statutory regulations facing our clients. That is why we work in partnership with global executives to address the challenging realities they face. Whether that is through Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Enterprise Performance Management (EPM), Customer Relationship Management (CRM) or business analytics, we optimize financial performance, achieve operational efficiency, and improve the customer experience.

As a leader of cloud implementations, we have significant Oracle and Salesforce expertise and are the largest and fastest-growing EPM firm in North America. But we don’t stop there. We continue to challenge ourselves and our clients to adapt and evolve. Because as change is always in motion, so are we.

Advisory Services

Analytics and Reporting

Customer Relationship Management (CRM)

Enterprise Performance Management

Enterprise Resource Planning

Managed Services

Infrastructure and Integration

Our Services

advisory services

Overview

Overview

Whether Fortune 500 or mid-size, emerging or maturing, our team has witnessed what finance and IT organizations do well and where they can improve compared to their peers and competitors.

Assess existing business processes and evaluate where technology can best be utilized to optimize and streamline these processes

Evaluate the change management impact of process re-engineering, including preparation of technology implementation

Develop a detailed enterprise technology roadmaps including current state, future state analysis

Understand requirements and translate them into the proper design documents to produce an accurate scope (RFP or RFI) for a project

In addition, our roadmaps include:

Maturity model progress plans

Technical hardware blueprints

Phased technology implementation plans

Change management and adoption plans

Risk factors and mitigation plans

Assessments

Assessments

Huron provides existing enterprise technology customers with the opportunity for an independent third party to review and assess their current solutions.

This comprehensive 2-day session consists of discussions guided by a pre-defined checklist of key inspection points associated with best practices for each application. The discussion focuses on collecting feedback from your unique organization and stakeholders that helps with identifying the root cause of any issues within your applications. Our team will then meet with you to discuss the overall health status of your applications, findings that identify specific issues impacting the health of an application and recommendations categorized into a roadmap of short term and longer term enhancements.

Solution Adoption

Solution Adoption

A new technology solution can add measurable value to your organization. To ensure adoption and ultimate success, there are a few thing to keep in mind before you begin, including stakeholder engagement, organizational readiness and training. Huron partners with our clients to assess their current state and provide tangible recommendations for moving forward to ensure successful solution adoption. Learn more.

analytics & reporting

Overview

Overview

We help organizations continuously measure, plan, and act through the use of reporting and analysis tools. Huron provides a cutting edge information strategy approach that can allow your organization to realize the value of your financial and operational technology investments. Let us help you further leverage your investments by integrating your on-premise data, with the ever-increasing amount of cloud, social media and unstructured content, to maximize both customer satisfaction and profitability.

We understand the reporting requirements of your organization today, and can provide solutions that span:

Accounting and financial insights

Departmental analysis and a view into the effectiveness of an organization's operations

Variance reporting across the enterprise

Identifying issues or opportunities and taking action with big data, business intelligence and advanced predictive analytics

Customer Relationship Management (CRM)

Overview

Overview

Your customer expects a first-class experience with every touch point of your business. Huron helps clients across industries connect to their customers in entirely new ways by developing custom solutions that extend Salesforce’s value enterprise-wide. Our deep industry, business process, and technology expertise ensures successful Salesforce implementations that drive real business value.

salesforce solutions, tailored to your business

salesforce solutions, tailored to your business

Huron supports the world’s leading customer success platform to help businesses grow into more efficient, effective and profitable organizations. Working in close partnership with our clients, we help uncover the right Salesforce solution to drive sustainable and measurable results — from customer relationship management (CRM) strategy and advisory services, to complex Salesforce implementations and analytics.

Every member of our large and growing Salesforce delivery organization has deep platform implementation experience and certifications. But what sets us apart is our highly specialized industry expertise in creating solutions for healthcare, life sciences, higher education and commercial industries.

Overview

Huron specializes in partnering with our clients to deliver solutions that support the end-to-end enterprise performance management process, whether in the cloud or on-premise. With decades of solution delivery experience, we are able to offer our clients precise guidance based on their unique needs and requirements and deliver solutions that enable the finance organization to be successful at managing the business. From financial close, planning and forecasting, to risk and regulatory reporting, Huron’s strong finance and technical expertise with Oracle’s Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) and Oracle Financial Services Analytical Application (OFSAA) software solutions enable us to deliver meaningful change and sustainable results for our clients.

Budget Planning and Forecasting

Budget Planning and Forecasting

Business planners need relevant, up-to-date and accurate data from various systems and implement (or redesign) solutions so that they can plan or forecast effectively and efficiently while adapting to changes in a scalable way.

Our team specializes in helping organizations understand, design and implement customized EPM solutions. We help organizations understand how to balance functionality and complexity while avoiding usability compromises for the business planning process. We deliver custom (driver-based and non-driver based) business planning solution components that are effective, efficient, scalable, adaptable and:

Ensure accuracy with a centralized, single-data repository that validates forecasts

Boost enterprise-wide adoption and collaboration with an easy to use Excel-like interface built for use by finance

Prevent data breaches using the latest security technology and methods

Support advanced modeling and enable 'what-if' scenario analysis

Financial Close and Reporting

Financial Close and Reporting

Enterprise expansions, industry competition, and product/service re-engineering have made the financial consolidation and reporting efforts the single most important exercise a business will perform. To be competitive, you must find a faster way to close your books and report to both your internal and external stakeholders a clearer view of your business inside and out highlighting past, present and future performance. That is why, companies rely on our services for both our in-depth knowledge of today's hyper-competitive business landscape and the knowledge of the financial products available to support the key business decisions that drive quantifiable results and dramatically improve your company's close and reporting processes.

From start to finish, we can help you optimize your solutions with flexible, transparent, and quick-to-implement solutions that include:

Integration of source system financial and non-financial information

Management of period-end close activities

Global accounting and standardized financial close solutions

Tax provision solutions

XBRL reporting offerings

Profitability and Cost Management

Profitability and Cost Management

Profitability and cost management has become a critical component in the framework of enterprise performance management for helping to maximize the bottom line. Realizing the potential profitability and true costs of your products and/or services is necessary to improve performance - and helps with strategic decisions making and resource allocation (both financial and people).

Our solutions allow our clients to:

Align cost with revenue-based and key business drivers to achieve optimal profitability at each business segment (product, customer, channel, etc.)

Perform 'what-if' analysis to support decision-making during times of change, such as plant closure, reorganization, channel adjustments

Identify root causes and optimize flexibility and agility to maneuver within an ever complex market

Discover and analyze the true impact of Shared Services

Improve customer service and react to changing customer demands (price, product mix, packaging, capacity) with a clear understanding of the impact on profitability

Discover and comprehend the underlying drivers of the business, including creating drill-down capability

oracle enterprise applications and analytics

oracle enterprise applications and analytics

As an Oracle Platinum Partner with global delivery capabilities, Huron is a trusted provider of end-to-end Oracle ERP, EPM, and Business Analytics solutions. Whether it is cloud or on-premise, from blueprint through managed services, Huron is uniquely suited to help clients define their requirements, streamline business processes, and deliver the Oracle solutions needed to achieve measurable results.

We specialize in architecting solutions and delivering world-class results leveraging the following Oracle technologies:

This financial services industry continues to face challenges in both the marketplace and the regulatory arena. These environments dictate that financial service companies stay agile, competitive and one step ahead. To achieve this, companies are turning to Oracle Financial Services Analytical Application software to enable financial institutions to measure and meet risk-adjusted performance objectives, cultivate a risk management culture through transparency, lower the costs of compliance and regulation, and improve insight into customer behavior.

Overview

Leveraging today’s available Cloud technologies, Huron can help you realize your desire to simplify and modernize systems, provide scalability to support growth, reduce implementation and ongoing costs, and maximize your use of embedded social, analytic and mobile capabilities. Huron’s unique expertise in Oracle EPM and edge industry applications, along with our Oracle ERP Cloud capabilities, enables us to deliver differentiated seamless end-to-end business processes and applications. Our decades of experience translates into business advisory for our clients, working side by side from process design through system design, to actualize solutions that result in a competitive advantage.

oracle enterprise applications and analytics

oracle enterprise applications and analytics

As an Oracle Platinum Partner with global delivery capabilities, Huron is a trusted provider of end-to-end Oracle ERP, EPM, and Business Analytics solutions. Whether it is cloud or on-premise, from blueprint through managed services, Huron is uniquely suited to help clients define their requirements, streamline business processes, and deliver the Oracle solutions needed to achieve measurable results.

We specialize in architecting solutions and delivering world-class results leveraging the following Oracle technologies:

Overview

True transformation requires a strong focus on adoption. Once the platform you select is implemented, we ensure successful deployment and adoption through our widely recognized organizational-readiness and mature managed services programs, assisting your organizations’ stakeholders to adopt the new technology, methodology and processes to increase business performance.

Ongoing Support

Ongoing Support

We strive to provide clients with complete autonomy and focus on knowledge transfer throughout ever engagement so clients fully understand and control their applications. In some cases, however, clients desire ongoing support to complement their internal resources, whether in terms of personnel, software or even storage. Huron offers a range of services that can help you retain the expertise required to maintain, fix, modify, provide guidance on and administer your applications.

In addition to ready-access to this critical skill-set we provide peace of mind for continuity. By having multiple resources vested in your solution we can provide you with the best ongoing support and advice needed as your business changes over time, resulting in a trusted partnership.

Infrastructure and Integration

Overview

Overview

Without a solid architecture and design, the capability and reliability of your EPM, ERP, Business Intelligence and CRM systems can suffer. Huron's infrastructure services focus on the hardware and software aspect of your enterprise applications, and includes:

Results

Learn how Middlebury College has successfully transformed its budgeting, forecasting, and reporting process by aligning people, process, and technology through its successful partnership with Huron Consulting Group’s Higher Education EPM and Analytics experts.

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As an Oracle Platinum Partner with global delivery capabilities, Huron is a trusted provider of end-to-end Oracle ERP, EPM, and Business Analytics solutions. Whether it is cloud or on-premise, from blueprint through managed services, Huron is uniquely suited to help clients define their requirements, streamline business processes, and deliver the Oracle solutions needed to achieve measurable results.

Huron supports the world’s leading customer success platform to help businesses grow into more efficient, effective and profitable organizations. Working in close partnership with our clients, we help uncover the right Salesforce solution to drive sustainable and measurable results — from customer relationship management (CRM) strategy and advisory services, to complex Salesforce implementations and analytics.

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